Oracle 12c installation

Oracle database is one of the most widely used relational database management systems (RDBMS) in enterprise environments. Developed, maintained, and supported by Oracle Corporation, this RDBMS is often installed on top of a flavor of Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, or Scientific Linux). This makes for a very robust operating system – database choice. In this article, we will explain how to install Oracle 12c Release 2 on a RHEL/CentOS 7 GUI server. Attention: RHEL/CentOS 6 users can follow this guide to Install Oracle Database 12c on RHEL/CentOS 6.x Let’s begin. Prerequisites: After installing Oracle 12c, the configuration will be performed through a graphical interface. That is the reason why we need a CentOS 7 server with the X Window System software group installed. Read Also: Install GUI (Gnome) on RHEL/CentOS 7 Server Additionally, please note that an Oracle account is required to download the Oracle Database 12c installation file (3.2 GB). Don’t worry about … [Read more...] about How to Install Oracle Database 12c on RHEL/CentOS 7

In our previous article, we’ve shown you how to setup prerequisites for Oracle 12c installation. In this article we will cover installation and configuration of Oracle 12c in RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 6.5, along with some Oracle post installation instructions. Oracle 12c Installation Requirements Installing Prerequisites for Oracle 12c in RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 6.5 – Part I Installing Oracle 12c Database in CentOS 6.5 1. After extracting, we will get database directory which has 2.6GB in size. So, next we can go-head and install the oracle. Let us start the installation by running runInstaller. Navigate the installer Directory and run the Installer. # cd database/ # ./runInstaller Our Installer has been launched here. For every steps we need to move forward by Clicking Next or OK. Oracle 12c Installer Configure Security Updates 2. I’m going to skip this step as I don’t want security updates. Un-check the check box and mark the checkbox that says “Wish … [Read more...] about Installing and Configuring Oracle 12c in RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 6.5

The in-memory database technology trumpeted by Oracle last September will not only be available in 60 days but the software giant says it could outstrip all its rivals within 12 months. Oracle's Database In-Memory option, like longer-standing competitor products such as SAP's HANA, is designed to speed up workloads driven by analytics with the capacity to cope with billions of data values per second. Unlike rival products, which either require changes to applications or limit database functionality, the new Oracle technology is transparent to existing applications that use the company's database technology, according to Oracle vice president of product management Tim Shetler. "One of the reasons we felt it was really important to make this option transparent to the existing applications that run on the Oracle databases was because there are today over 300,000 organisations worldwide that use the Oracle database," he said. "Just because of that, we expect there will be, at least in … [Read more...] about Oracle’s in-memory option aims to beat the rest within 12 months

Reversing years of cloud-bashing, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison added an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) component to the company's cloud portfolio this week at Oracle OpenWorld, rounding it out the company's strategy to include the three major cloud platforms, including SaaS and PaaS. But will anyone outside of existing Oracle customers use it?Various analysts attending the show in San Francisco this week question if the offering has much appeal outside of existing Oracle customers. Mark Bowker, an analyst that Enterprise Strategy Group, says that's OK though: "Oracle's a pretty big company," as evidence by the estimated 50,000 attendees at this year's OpenWorld show, and the company's consistent multibillion-dollar quarterly revenue figures.As Oracle rounds out its cloud strategy though, what many consider the market leader in this space, Amazon Web Services, came out with its own news this week too, giving customers a free tier to use Oracle databases in its cloud.LARRY AND THE CLOUD: … [Read more...] about As Oracle Rounds Out its Cloud Strategy, Amazon Web Services Looms

Oracle's second-quarter revenue rose 2 percent to US$9.3 billion while net income dropped 1 percent to $2.6 billion, with new software license and cloud subscription revenue flat and hardware product revenue continuing a long slide.New software license and cloud subscription revenue remained at $2.4 billion for the quarter ended Nov. 30, Oracle said in its announcement Wednesday. But revenue from the annual maintenance payments its on-premises software customers make to Oracle grew 6 percent to $4.5 billion.Hardware product revenue fell 3 percent to $714 million, with total hardware systems revenue flat at $1.3 billion.Since getting into the hardware business with the purchase of Sun Microsystems, Oracle has maintained it has no interest in selling commodity servers against the likes of Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Instead, it is focused on selling specialized "engineered systems" such as Exadata, which also hold plenty of lucrative software licenses. That said, earlier this year CEO … [Read more...] about Oracle’s Q2 profits down 1 percent, revenue up 2 percent to $9.3 billion

As it preps Oracle Enterprise Manager to run private clouds, Oracle has released an update to the management software that offers the ability for organizations to offer production-ready databases as a service.Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c release 4 is the first version of the software to "offer enterprise-grade databases as a service with high availability and disaster recovery," said Dan Koloski, senior director of product management for the Oracle Enterprise Manager line of software. "We want our customers consume their databases in an agile environment."The new release also offers advancements in managing middleware and in access control.Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c is aimed at managing large deployments of hardware and software, both from Oracle and other vendors. With the Enterprise Manager 12c release in 2011, Oracle built in tools to deploy, meter, manage and optimize private clouds within the enterprise. The software provides an API (application programming interface)-based … [Read more...] about Oracle Focuses on Prepping Databases As a Service

Oracle's sprawling annual OpenWorld conference doesn't kick off until September, but next week the Oracle user group-backed Collaborate event will be held in Denver.While smaller in scale than OpenWorld, Collaborate gives Oracle's increasingly diverse customer base a chance to network, get face time with product managers, attend educational sessions and get a glimpse into Oracle's road maps.[ BACKGROUND: Oracle's new software, cloud revenue dropped 2 percent in Q3 ]The show also gives Oracle watchers a chance to see how the vendor's strategies are resonating among customers in the run-up to OpenWorld. Here's a look at some of the top issues on tap at Collaborate.Fusion Applications in the field: Oracle has been pushing its next-generation Fusion Applications, the result of a long and expensive development effort, in a gentle manner to customers, emphasizing a "co-existence" strategy where Fusion modules can sit alongside an existing E-Business Suite or PeopleSoft implementation.Oracle … [Read more...] about Oracle’s strategies to get real-world verdict at Collaborate user event

This year's Oracle OpenWorld conference is still a couple of months away, but the vendor has already provided an ample sneak peek into what's in store for attendees of the show.The OpenWorld 2013 content catalog recently went live, and while Oracle is keeping a lid on specific news announcements slated for OpenWorld, a careful combing-through of the show's hundreds of planned sessions can produce some good guesses about what will be on offer. Here's a look.Database details: Oracle made a big splash midyear with the release of version 12c of its flagship database. The release's most-hyped feature is multitenancy, which allows many "pluggable" databases to reside inside a single host database, providing simplified management and upkeep.Database 12c will be featured in a number of OpenWorld sessions aimed at developers and administrators, but the most significant database news may come from the keynote stage. On a recent earnings call, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison spilled the beans on an … [Read more...] about Oracle Openworld: What to Expect

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison typically uses his annual OpenWorld conference keynotes to deliver the company's biggest announcements and strategic positioning, and this year they will apparently involve an in-memory database and Oracle's PaaS (platform as a service) offerings.On Sunday, Sept. 22 Ellison will deliver his first keynote, which is titled "Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Database and M6 Big Memory Machine," according to an announcement released Tuesday.The first likely refers to something Ellison mentioned in June during an Oracle earnings call.While Oracle released an initial version of Database 12c in June, on the call Ellison referred to an upcoming product he described as a "vertical, columnar compressed, high-speed in-memory vertical database" that would be out at the end of this year.Meanwhile, M6 Big Memory Machine is apparently a high-RAM server based on Oracle's next-generation SPARC M6 chips and will likely be paired with the in-memory 12c product.All told, Oracle and … [Read more...] about Larry Ellison to talk in-memory database, Oracle PaaS at OpenWorld

Oracle tends to keep a tight lid on the specific announcements it will make each year at the OpenWorld conference prior to show time, but a newly released session catalog provides plenty of clues and fodder for speculation as to what's in store at the event, which runs from Sept. 30 to Oct. 4 in San Francisco. 1. Cloud computingOpenWorld will no doubt see plenty of updates and refresher courses on Oracle's recently launched Oracle Cloud, which runs the gamut from Fusion Applications delivered as SaaS (software as a service) to an on-demand database and Java application server.It wasn't clear from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's presentation earlier this month whether all elements of Oracle Cloud are generally available, but any lingering questions on that front should be answered at OpenWorld.Meanwhile, one OpenWorld session will feature a number of Oracle technical staffers sharing "lessons and best practices learned in the initial rollout" of the database service, which uses the vendor's … [Read more...] about New Oracle Openworld Details Give Early Look At Company’s Plans